This exercise is
designed to acquaint you with some on-line library resources useful
for course work and especially for required research papers.

Successful
completion of the exercise should provide you with a rudimentary
knowledge of basic search strategy which can be transferred to all
libraries available to you in the future.

The primary
resources in any library are the people that staff it. Please feel
free to make frequent use of this most important and basic resource as
often as necessary in the course of conducting your research.

We hope that
you find this search interesting as well as informative.

Select one (1) topic from the list below and begin your search. Don't forget to type it into the box! The topics are intended to appeal to a variety of interests, so please give some thought to your selection.

TOPIC:

AIDS (disease)

Child abuse

College costs

Hmong culture

Earthquake prediction

Ingmar Bergman

Hazardous waste disposal

Cesar Chavez

Job hunting

Right to die

Dropouts

Water pollution

Sigmund Freud

Gang violence

Condoleeza Rice

I. Mc4Me Portal

Merced College students have access to a variety of online resources
via the Mc4Me campus portal. Magazines, newspapers and scholarly
journals, as well as encyclopedias, are provided once you login to
the portal. To help you login, there are some basic instruction
links on the portal login page.
http://mc4me.mccd.edu/

III. EbscoHost - Magazines

EbscoHost provides 22 different databases with many full text sources for magazine and journal articles. It is available in the library, and through the library home page via the Internet. Using this source, locate articles relevant to your selected topic.

Databases selected:

Select one of the citations and provide the following information:

Title of article:

Author of article:

Name of publication containing article:

Date of publication:Vol. No.Page(s) of article:

Is the full text available online for this article?(Type in Yes or No)

Does this library
subscribe to this publication in print?(Type in Yes or No)

V. Newsbank

Newsbank provides full text articles from newspapers around the United
States, including the New York Times back to 2000, the Merced
Sun-Star, Modesto Bee, Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, and San Francisco
Chronicle.
Find an
article relevant to your selected topic and provide the following
information:

The Internet provides access to millions of information sources. Some of these are appropriate for use in scholarly research and some are not.

As you identify and look at resources available on the Internet use the same criteria for evaluating the information you see as you would if you were reading a newspaper or other periodical, realizing all information available on the 'Net' may not be factual, reasonable, current, or scholarly in nature.

Using two of the following Internet
resources, look for information relevant to your topic: